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Oscilloscope Laboratories
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English
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An unvarnished perspective of the intensity and paradoxes of war shot by Marine Corps videographer Miles Lagoze. This ingeniously edited documentary is composed solely of footage the Corps did not intend for you to see. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the **Dallas International Film Festival.** *"...Lagoze detonates any lingering illusions of military heroism." - Lawrence Garcia, **AV Club*** *"An unfiltered tour-de-force...
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"Brye is a mom to four military officers, and for more than a decade she's endured countless teary goodbyes, sparse communication from boot camps and training summers, deployments, emotional airport reunions, empty chairs at Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless hours waiting for phone calls in the night. She's navigated the complicated tangle of emotions--pride, worry, fear, hope, and deep, enduring love--that accompanies life as a military mom. In...
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English
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Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. He is a Navy brat and he has a bad attitude problem. Sgt Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack then meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.
5) Going to war
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What is it really like to go to war? For millennia, only warriors could really answer that question. Now, a new PBS documentary takes viewers inside the experience of battle and reveals the soldier's experiences as never before. It helps viewers make sense of this paradox and get to the heart of what it is like to be a soldier in times of war." --
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[2016]
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English
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'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise -- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...
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English
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"The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier's experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. Steven Moore enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan--first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains--and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side...
9) Platoon
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A grunt's view of the Vietnam War is provided in all its horrific, inexplicable detail. Bonus features included.
11) Sword of honour
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A war story and a love story, as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
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Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
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English
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They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil...
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the...
17) Paisan
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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of WWII, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po valley.
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Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Birds of prey and the fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Nights and weekends: Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. As they both struggle with the distance between New York and Chicago, their visits become reminders of the difficulties rather than the pleasures of their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The American Civil War was one of the most significant wars in America's history. It divided an entire nation and challenged the way people viewed other people's rights. Explore the lives of the men and women who fought during the Civil War: what it was like to join the war, how people prepared for and fought in battles, and what dangers they faced along the way. Excitingly designed, full of engaging photographs and easy-to-read text, this book introduces...
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English
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"Places the stories of individual soldiers in the larger context of the Confederate war effort and follows them from the initial optimism of enlistment through the weariness of battle and defeat"--Jacket.
Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were,...
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